Wycliffe 76 in 22 Hornet

[titus123]

Apparently the Wycliffe 76 will shoot!
I installed a new Leupold EFR 6.5-20 ( ran out of downward adjustment range so I'm stuck with a 3" @100 zero (ends up being 1/4" high at 200 yards) who makes a scope with only 40 moa of adjustment in 2025?
Best load tested was 12.3 gr H110 under a 35 grain.Vmax and a Remington 6 1/2 primer in Hornady cases....
Cheers, Eric

 

[1raggedhole]

Nice looking rifle and scope sir. I have a Browning 1885 in 22 K-hornet that also shoots great. I’ve never had a rifle or mounts that far off, but would recommend you change the rings to Burris signature zee with offset inserts. You can easily correct the misalignment for useful scope adjustment.

 

[titus123]

I've never had one off that far either, but the Leupold EFR scopes are apparently notorious for bottoming out on adjustment ( only 40 moa of total elevation) with cartridges of the smaller caliber variety (22LR, 22 Mag, 22 Hornet, etc)
Ended up ordering a set of Burris Turn in signature rings and a set of +-10 MOA inserts. With my scope ring distance it'll give me around 12" of additional adjustments range

Nice looking rifle and scope sir. I have a Browning 1885 in 22 K-hornet that also shoots great. I’ve never had a rifle or mounts that far off, but would recommend you change the rings to Burris signature zee with offset inserts. You can easily correct the misalignment for useful scope adjustment

 

[titus123]

Mystery Solved:
At some point, the previous owner installed a shim under the rear base ( very skillfully, as it was not detectable without removing the scope mounts. This discovery was of course after I had ordered Burris Rings with posi align inserts. Regardless, I'm using the new rings, and have removed the shim.... Cheers

 

[1raggedhole]

Ouch. Hopefully it didn’t mark up your nice scope tube.

 

[titus123]

Ouch. Hopefully it didn’t mark up your nice scope tube.

Thankfully it did not. But it could have been because I only torqued the rings to 15 inch pounds, instead of the 20 that Burris recommends for their steel rings